Address : Nundu, Fizi / South-Kivu
RD. Congo
Contact person : Aubert MWIBAKECA,
Coordinator
Telephone : +243 813 868 209
+243 994 919 620
E-mail : adif.asbl@yahoo.fr
aubmwibak@gmail.com

ADIF : an NGO member of DIOFAP/Uvira, a network of 7 NGO’s financed by Mensen Met een Missie (MM- The Netherlands)

Who are we ?

We are a non-profit organization whose activities focus on the improvement of health, food safety, environment, gender and human rights, justice and good governance for an integral development of the population.
ADIF is community-based association, which means that its creation comes from the real needs of the community members in its working area.
As such, we organise many activities related to the fields cited above, but especially concerning the rights of women.

Why our organization ?

The territory of Fizi in the province of South-Kivu knows a particular situation; after many wars between different armed groups which happened endemically in the area from 1996 until 2004, the security, economic and social situation has significantly improved.  The current peace, although weak, has allowed the local people to prosper and develop within their communities.

However, citizens of Fizi face a lot of challenges in different domains: health, education, agriculture, human rights, land and customs conflicts and conflicts between indigenous. We see customary practices which do not favor the promotion and rights of women and children. So, women do not have rights regarding national and international legal instruments due to set customary practices, religious beliefs and ignorance within the community concerning the women themselves.

Because of those challenges, ADIF provides support for local communities in Fizi so they can develop. This approach is based on local and indigenous solutions for the resolution of problems.

Our Objectives

a) General :
Contributing to the global well-being of the population in Fizi.

b) Specific :
– Training the members for an integral and integrated self-promotion

– Fighting against malnutrition and childhood disease

– Defending human rights, especially women’s and children’s rights

– Finding alternatives to development problems of farmers by improving traditional techniques of fishing, agriculture, breeding and management methods

– Informing the population about the prevention of sexually transmitted and chronic diseases (AIDS, leprosy, tuberculosis, diabetes)

– Promoting peace and a peaceful intra- and intertribal coexistence

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